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Breastfeeding While Black and Thriving

The Emancipator recently brought new and expecting Black and Brown moms into conversation with doulas, birth sisters, midwives, lactation consultants, and doctors.

Austin While Black: Freedom, Joy & Belonging | #Voices

We spoke to Black Austinites about freedom, joy and belonging and here's what they had to say. During The People’s Observance, our Juneteenth celebration, guests took time to share the issues that are on their minds. This event was co-sponsored and co-produced with our friends Origin Studio House, a Black artists’ collective and community space in historic East Austin.

The Emancipator | Sizzle 2023

We are The Emancipator, a reimagining of the first abolitionist newspaper in the United States, for a new day. We are here to explore solutions to racial inequality, to capture your voices, and bring hope of a better future. We are proud of the conversations we’ve started and the projects coming ahead.

This Land is Our Land | Austin’s Freedom Towns

After emancipation, over 550 Black settlements emerged across Texas, offering safe havens for formerly enslaved folks seeking independence and liberation from oppression known as Freedom Towns. Over the years, gentrification, cultural erasure, natural disasters, and land dispossession have threatened the very existence of these precious communities.

The Recall: Reframed (Full Film)

THE RECALL: REFRAMED examines the 2018 recall of California Judge Aaron Persky, who lost his judgeship after handing down a sentence deemed too lenient by many in the infamous sexual assault case involving Stanford swimmer Brock Turner. The film offers competing perspectives and asks the difficult question: Who actually bears the burden when we demand harsher punishment for a privileged white defendant?

Community Health Equity Tour: Durham's Hayti Neighborhood

Once one of the most vibrant Black business districts in America, Durham’s Hayti neighborhood was dismantled by urban renewal efforts. Despite challenges, its residents haven’t given up on the promise that Hayti represents.

Community Health Equity Tour: Chicago's Little Village

Family, heritage, and community all play a powerful role in maintaining the health and wellness of a city’s residents. Our health equity tour of Chicago’s Little Village shows a neighborhood emblematic of these ideas. Next up: Durham, North Carolina.

Talking to your kids about race

What are we saying to our kids about race even when we don’t say anything? Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, explains how it is a false choice whether or not to teach your young child about race, because, either way, they’re picking up on your attitude about race.

On Reckonings, Reimagining, and The Third Reconstruction

Acclaimed historians Ibram X. Kendi and Peniel Joseph joined to discuss Joseph’s latest work, “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.”⁠

We’ve Been Here Before: Insurrections and White Supremacy

As we remember and assess the damage of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on America today, it’s valuable to take a hard look at the impact and consequences that white conservative election denialism played in our shared history.

Why racism is a public health crisis

Dr. Monica Wang breaks down a U.C. Berkeley study linking racism in a community to higher risk of heart disease deaths among both Black and White members of the community.

The New Crusades: White Christian Nationalism and the threat to democracy

Scholar and author Jemar Tisby issues a clarion call for the midterms and beyond: White Christian nationalism leads to authoritarianism, voter suppression, and even violence to meet political ends. For people who approach politics through the lens of faith, the Black Christian tradition shows another path that leans toward justice and civil rights for all. With faith on the ballot, The Emancipator explores The New Crusades.

The Talk: How these young Sikh Americans stay safe in the world

These Sikh American youth share the unique conversations about faith and identity that happen in their homes.

Lincoln didn’t free the enslaved. They freed themselves.

Time and time again, Lincoln is touted by his most well-known monikers, "The Great Emancipator" or "Savior of the Union."

Is Love a Luxury or a Necessity? Let’s ask bell hooks and Howard Thurman

As we approach Juneteenth, Black love and joy is on the brain. And it got us thinking… Is love a luxury or a necessity? From bell hooks to Martin Luther King Jr., to Howard Thurman — Nick Bates breaks down how to cultivate a love ethic in three steps. Bates is the associate director of the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground at Boston University.

Ibram X. Kendi: Enslavers Were the O.G. Book Banners

Tyrants don’t burn books anymore. They ban them. Today’s book bans are not unprecedented and unparalleled, as many have said. Lest we forget: Enslavers were the original book banners. Anti-slavery texts were the original books being banned. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi explains.

We Can Solve the Racial Wealth Gap

The origins of the racial wealth gap may begin with the enslavement of Black people, but they have been perpetuated and continued for hundreds of years. Kimberly Atkins Stohr explains how inequality in our financial systems costs all of us.

Bree Newsome Bass: Why The Revolution in America Isn’t Over

Structural racism has to die first before true self-governance can be born. Bree Newsome Bass, a filmmaker and activist, sets the record straight on what the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol was — and wasn’t. The real revolution, she says, is being fought at the grassroots level, by modern-day abolitionists who demand equality and freedom for everyone. That includes everything from a living wage and healthcare to housing and bodily autonomy.

Ibram X. Kendi Explains Why White Supremacy Is the Ultimate Diversion

Racist ideas have long cast Black people as dangerous to the nation and White people as safe. But if there’s anything Jan. 6 showed us, it’s the perils of misplaced fear. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award winner, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and founder of BU’s Center for Antiracist Research, offers insight on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, where a violent mob tried to stop the certification of 2020 presidential election results. He illustrates how White supremacists have long cast Black people as dangerous to evade detection and responsibility.

Announcing: The Emancipator

Co-founders of The Emancipator, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and Bina Venkataraman and explain how reimagining 19th-century antislavery newspapers can reframe today's conversations on racial justice and bring about an antiracist society.